Homily Archive

If you haven’t figured out by now, I love history; especially the history of the scriptures and church history. I firmly believe, if we do not know where we have come from, we cannot understand how we got to where we are as a church, society and culture.

During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln gave his most important speech at Gettysburg on a gray November day in 1863. The battle was a turning point in the war not only because the union succeeds in the battle but even more so because of the words Abraham Lincoln spoke which became a doctrine for our nation to be able to heal and unify in the future.

I have learned to accept as a Priest that no matter wherever I am, someone is going to recognize me. This especially happens to me on my day off when I am out doing errands such as grocery shopping or at the hardware store.

For a nonbeliever, the cross is just two pieces of wood put together to form a ‘t.’ Or they see the cross as an instrument of torture and death used in the ancient world. The cross was a symbol and an instrument of death and destruction effectively used during the Roman era, but the church did not worship an empty symbol.

s the leaves swirl in the Autumn wind, the colors of the season give us fullness of their beauty. From the largest of trees to the smallest shrub, God’s creation is decked out in all its glory, from the deepest of reds to the brightest of golds to the warmest of rust colors; it is a color palette only God could paint

What does leadership and avoidance have to do with one another? Just ask Jesus. When Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem with his disciples, he was teaching them that, “the Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.”